Peggy Robles-Alvarado is an award-winning educator, poet, performer, playwright, and producer. She is a Jerome Hill Foundation Fellow in Literature, a three-time International Latino Book Award winner, a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, and a BRIO award recipient.
Her latest poetry collection, BURN ME BACK, published by Four Way Books, was selected as the 2025 Booklist’s Editors’ Choice for Adult Poetry Book. It is also a finalist for the 2026 Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award to be announced in October.
Peggy has earned writing fellowships from CantoMundo, Desert Nights, The Frost Place, The Ashbery Home School, VONA, Candela Playwrights, Dramatic Question Theater, and NALAC. Peggy’s work appears in The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, ¡Manteca!, great weather for MEDIA, and What Saves Us, as well as online in Poets.org, The Quarry at Split This Rock, The Common, Tribes.org, and NACLA.org.
An acclaimed poet and powerful force in poetic theater, Peggy is a two-time recipient of the Bronx Cultural Visions Grant, supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation, for her innovative works MUSTBE>THAN21GRAMS and DURA. In 2023, she developed her play SUAVE as a Dramatic Question Theater Fellow, and her monologue “Recycle & Return” was featured in The Playground Experiment’s Faces of America Monologue Festival. She was also an inaugural fellow of the Candela Playwrights Program, supported by The Dramatist Guild, and has since served as a faculty member for their summer fellowship series.
Peggy’s work has also been featured at the Solfest Latine Theater Festival, Harlem 9: 48 Hours En El Bronx, the Dodge Poetry Festival, Lincoln Center, HBO Habla Women, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, PEN America World Voices Festival, Harvard University, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Tampa, FL, Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and New York University Latinx Caribbean Poetry Festival.
With two master’s degrees in education, an MFA in performance and performance studies, and a teaching career spanning over twenty years in the elementary and higher education systems in New York City, Peggy founded her 501(c)(3), Robleswrites Productions Inc.. She created Lalibreta.online, The Abuela Stories Project, and continuously produces original literary events that foster intergenerational communal healing, literacy, creativity, and equity, supporting and publishing writers of color with a special focus on women writers. Learn more at robleswritesproductions.com
To heal, to reflect, to connect – through the power of words
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, 2026
Lydia Garcia Author Fund Fellowship, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies, 2025
Entrepreneurial Assistance Center for Artists of Color Fellow of CCCADI, 2024
Dramatist Guild Foundation Community Partner, 2024 & 2025
CRNY Fellow in the Artist Power Building School, 2024
PlayTime ’23, The Dramatic Question Theater, 2023
Candela Playwrights Summer Jam Inaugural Cohort/Dramatist Guild, 2023
Jerome Hill Foundation Fellowship in Literature, 2021
NALAC Leadership Institute Fellow, 2021
Communitas America Leadership Program- Cohort #6, 2021
DEAR (Digital Evolution/Artist Retention) Fellowship, CCCADI, 2020
VONA- Voices of Our Nation- The Empty Spaces Poetry Fellowship, 2020
The Frost Place Writing Fellowship, 2020
Desert Nights Rising Stars Writing Fellowship, 2020
The Academy For Teachers Fellowship, 2015 & 2018
The Ashbery Home School Poetry Fellowship, 2015
Canto Mundo Poetry Fellowship, 2014 & 2016
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) for Poetry, 2026
The Bronx Council on the Arts, Robleswrites Productions Presents: Book Bochinche! Community Arts and Arts Fund Grant, 2026
Burn Me Back, Four Way Books, New York, NY, debuted in September 2025. Selected as 2025 Booklist’s Editor’s Choice for Adult Poetry Book, November 2025
The Bronx Cultural Visions Fund, supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation, concept development grantee for the play DURA, 2025
The Bronx Council on the Arts, Robleswrites Presents: Write In, Write On, Community Arts Grant, 2024
Cultural Dieztination: A Collective Latinx Voice, NALAC Fund For The Arts, 2024
Honorary Madrina for the 47th Annual Three Kings Day Celebration, representing Julia De Burgos, Spoken Word: The Power of Oral Tradition, El Museo Del Barrio, 2024
The Bronx Cultural Visions Fund, supported by the Howard Gilman Foundation, concept development grantee for the play MUSTBE>THAN21GRAMS, 2023
The Bronx Council on the Arts, Robleswrites Productions Presents: No Small Voices-On This Bridge, Arts Fund Grant, 2022
Communitas America Micro–Grant 1K Winner, 2022
Communitas America 2K Pitch Grant Winner, 2021
Arts Connect International Ripple Grant, 2021
Communitas America Grant Winner, 2021
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute Digital Evolution Artist, 2020
Atticus Review Poetry Contest Winner, 2020
The Bronx Council on the Arts, Robleswrites Productions Presents: Release, Write and Respite for Women in Creative Rebellion Arts Fund Grant, 2020
The Bronx Council on the Arts, Robleswrites Presents: The “More Than Just…Project” New Work and Arts Fund Grant, 2019
International Latino Book Awards, First Place for Best Latina-Themed Book and Second Place, Best Poetry Book Multi-Author for The Abuela Stories Project, 2018
Pratt Institute Excellence in Academic Achievement Award, MFA 4.0 GPA, 2018
Pratt Graduate Student Engagement Fund Grant, 2017
Pratt Institute Graduate Student Trustee, 2017
Spaceworks Bronx Community Artist Grant, for Robleswrites Presents: Mujeres, The Magic, The Movement, and The Muse, 2016
25 Most Influential Women in the Bronx Award Presented by The Bronx Times, 2016
Bronx Council on the Arts, Robleswrites Presents: The Abuela Stories Project, Arts Fund Grant, 2016
Areito Award for Poet of the Year at the 7th Annual Taino Awards, 2015
BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) Award winner, 2014
Tato Laviera Poetic Teamster Award, Teamsters Union Local 237, 2013
International Latino Book Awards, Second Place, Best Bilingual Poetry Book, and Best Cover Design, Homenaje a las guerreras/ Homage to the Warrior Women, 2013
International Latino Book Awards, Second Place, Best Poetry Book in English, Conversations With My Skin, 2012
Mujeres Destacadas Award, Most Outstanding Women in the Latino Community El Diario-La Prensa, 2012
Womyn Warrior Award, Casa Atabex Aché Center, 2012
Published in 92Y’s #wordswelivein, NACLA, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies and The Bronx Memoir Project.
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